Ceres is the largest so-called asteroid within the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. First discovered in 1801, this England-sized dwarf planet may be small, but it has been labelled by scientists as a "chemical factory"; and a 2017 discovery found that the planet does indeed have several key ingredients for carbon-based primitive life as we know it. With upwards of 200M KM of water, and a vapour-rich atmosphere, Ceres may well be home to, or have been home to, very primitive species of life. So, what are we waiting for? Let's get straight to it, as we explore this wonderful little planet!
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Dusk for Dawn: NASA Mission to the Asteroid Belt

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft turned science fiction into science fact by using ion propulsion to explore the two largest bodies in the main asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres. The mission will end this fall, when the spacecraft runs out of hydrazine, which keeps it oriented and in communication with Earth. For more info on the mission, visit https://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov

The Dawn spacecraft has moved to its final orbit, an orbit which will bring it down to 35km from the surface of Ceres. It's being placed in this orbit to collect better data from its Gamma Ray and Neutron Detector instrument to give scientist a better understanding of the chemistry.

Standing on Ceres - Closest Dwarf Planet to Earth

Ceres is quite an interesting dwarf planet that has lots of mysterious things going on. In this video i see as to what would it be like to land and stand on this dwarf planet.
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Ceres vs Vesta Water Accumulation

In several craters on dwarf planet Ceres, bright water ice deposits have been observed by Dawn's framing camera.
This finding suggests that water ice can be stored for significant amounts of time in cold, dark craters on Ceres. Such reservoirs are called "cold traps." At less than minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit (110 Kelvin), they are so chilly that very little of the ice turns into vapor in the course of a billion years.
The color scale gives hydrogen content in water-equivalent units, which assumes all of the hydrogen is in the form of H2O. Blue indicates where hydrogen content is higher, near the poles, while red indicates lower content at lower latitudes.
In reality, some of the hydrogen is in the form of water ice, while a portion of the hydrogen is in the form of hydrated minerals (such as OH, in serpentine group minerals). The color information is superimposed on shaded relief map for context.
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Nasa's Dawn spacecraft has dipped closer than ever to Ceres, capturing the most detailed images yet of the mysterious bright spots on the dwarf planet. The latest images capture two giant craters up close, called Haulani (pictured) and Oxo. They show evidence the impacts that formed them are fresh - and even show the giant landslides at the crater's rim they caused.
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OTD in Space – January 1: Giuseppe Piazzi Discovers Ceres

On January 1, 1801, a Sicilian astronomer named Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. At the time, Ceres was considered to be a planet. But after astronomers found more things orbiting in the same region over the next few decades, they demoted Ceres and all those other objects to asteroid status. However, in 2006, the big debate about Pluto's planetary status led astronomers to redefine what it means to be a planet, and Ceres was reclassified as a dwarf planet along with. While it is the smallest of the known dwarf planets, it is the largest object in the asteroid belt.

New Findings From NASA's Dawn Mission at Dwarf Planet Ceres

More than 300 bright spots have been located on the surface of Ceres. Scientists with NASA's Dawn mission say the bright material indicates the dwarf planet is an active, evolving world.
More: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/bright-areas-on-ceres-suggest-geologic-activity

NASA Says Signs Point To Ancient Ocean Remnants On Dwarf Planet Ceres

NASA says there may have been a global ocean on Ceres in the past.

NASA VR: Fly Over Ceres with the Dawn Spacecraft (360 video)

Occator Crater on Ceres is home to the brightest area on the entire dwarf planet. At 57 miles (92 kilometers) wide and 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) deep, Occator displays evidence of recent geologic activity. NASA's Dawn mission found that the bright spots may have been produced by upwelling of salt-rich liquids after the impact that formed the crater. Pan and zoom as you fly over the crater with Dawn in this 360-degree animation made with observations from the spacecraft.
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The Dawn mission is on its way to orbit the dwarf planet Ceres in 2015. Recently, observations by the Herschel Space Observatory found that Ceres has a thin water vapor atmosphere and is spewing jets of water out into space.

Destination Dwarf Planet: Dawn Approaches Ceres

NASA's Dawn mission will be the first to explore a dwarf planet on March 6, 2015. This video details the spacecraft's approach and orbit insertion.

Circling Occator Crater on Ceres

This animation, made using data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the topography of Occator crater on Ceres.
Vertical relief has been stretched by a factor of 1.5 to better illustrate the crater's topography.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI
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Organic Matter Just Found On Dwarf Planet Ceres! Could Alien Life Be Next?

This discovery means the nearby planet has the building blocks for life, and they most likely, came from within the planet itself.
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Organic Material Discovery Suggests Life Could Exist on Dwarf Planet Ceres
http://www.seeker.com/organics-found-on-dwarf-planet-ceres-2266073354.html
NASA's Dawn mission has detected tar-like organic compounds on the dwarf planet's surface, bolstering prospects for life on the largest body in the asteroid belt.
Scientists study geology of Ceres to understand origin of organics
https://phys.org/news/2017-02-scientists-geology-ceres.html
"NASA's Dawn spacecraft recently detected organic-rich areas on Ceres. Scientists evaluated the geology of the regions to conclude that the organics are most likely native to the dwarf planet. Data from the spacecraft suggest that the interior of Ceres is the source of these organic materials, as opposed to arriving via impacting asteroids or comets, according to a paper published in the Feb. 17, 2017, issue of Science."
Ceres hosts organic compounds, and they formed on the asteroid, not beyond
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-02/aaft-cho021317.php
"Aliphatic organic compounds - carbon-based building blocks that may have a role in the chemistry that creates life - have been detected for the first time on Ceres, an asteroid and dwarf planet, a new study reveals."
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"Researchers from Hong Kong report that organic compounds of unexpected complexity exist throughout the Universe. They indicate that an organic substance commonly found throughout the Universe contains a mixture of aromatic and aliphatic components."
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Everything You Need To Know About Galactic Ice Volcanoes!

Cryovolcanoes are a lot like volcanoes here on Earth, except they erupt with ice and – so far – only found on frozen worlds.
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The Curious Case of Ceres' Vanishing Ice Volcanoes
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"NASA's Dawn spacecraft is currently orbiting Ceres, the solar system's innermost dwarf planet. Many weird and wonderful things have been discovered, but some of these findings have created new and perplexing mysteries. One such mystery is centered around Ceres' ice volcanoes - or lack thereof. Ice volcanoes, or cryovolcanoes, are features that are thought to be common on the surfaces of cold bodies in the outer solar system, creating ice analogs of the volcanoes we have on Earth."
Lonely Ice Volcano On Ceres May Have Once Had Company
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"Ahuna Mons could simply be a one-of-a-kind feature. But new research by Sori and his colleagues suggests another possible answer: Ahuna Mons may have once had company, older cryovolcanoes that flattened out and disappeared over the eons via a process called 'viscous relaxation.' Viscous relaxation means that many solids on a planetary surface will flow, given enough time. Earth's mountains don't relax in an appreciable way, because they're made of rock. But Ahuna Mons has a lot of water ice mixed in and is therefore a relaxation candidate, Sori said."
Where is the Ice on Ceres? New NASA Dawn Findings
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"At first glance, Ceres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt, may not look icy. Images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft have revealed a dark, heavily cratered world whose brightest area is made of highly reflective salts -- not ice. But newly published studies from Dawn scientists show two distinct lines of evidence for ice at or near the surface of the dwarf planet."
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Ceres: An Ancient Ocean World from the Dawn of the Solar System - C. Raymond - 11/9/2016

Published on Dec 15, 2016
This video shows the intriguing Occator Crater on Ceres, home to the dwarf planet's brightest area. It may have been produced by upwelling of salt-rich liquids after the impact that formed the crater. The animated flyover includes topographic and enhanced-color views of the crater, highlighting the central dome feature. The animation was produced by the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Original music by Stefan Elgner, DLR.
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This video shows the intriguing Occator Crater on Ceres, home to the dwarf planet's brightest area. It may have been produced by upwelling of salt-rich liquids after the impact that formed the crater. The animated flyover includes topographic and enhanced-color views of the crater, highlighting the central dome feature. The animation was produced by the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Original music by Stefan Elgner, DLR.
For more information about the Dawn mission, visit http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov .
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

LOOK: Ceres' Strange Crater Gets a Close-Up

NASA released new images of Ceres taken by its Dawn spacecraft during its fifth orbit of the dwarf planet

NASA Releases Amazing Images of Dwarf Planet Ceres

NASA's Dawn craft is sending back amazing picture of dwarf planet, Ceres, Patrick Jones (@Patrick_E_Jones) has them for you.
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A new study reveals some fascinating insights into an ice volcano on the dwarf planet Ceres.
A new study reveals some fascinating insights into an icy volcano on the dwarf planet Ceres.
Ahuna Mons is about 13,000 feet tall and 11 miles wide which is particularly impressive given that the entire planet is “less than 600 miles wide.”
As an Arizona State University news release reports, the mountain is considered to be the result of cryovolcanism where the “volcanic dome [was] built from repeated eruptions of freezing salty water.”
The mountain is also estimated to be relatively young, with one of the paper’s authors explaining that it only has “a few craters on its surface, which points to an age of just couple hundred million years at most.”
As the release states, “the implications of Ahuna Mons being volcanic in origin are enormous.”
While the dwarf planet’s surface temperatures are considerably below freezing on average, “its interior has kept warm enough for liquid water or brines to exist for a relatively long period [which]...has allowed volcanic activity...”
Researchers plan to continue studying the area “to better understand the interior structure of Ceres.”

In what could be the best evidence for an ice volcano anywhere in our solar system, NASA's Dawn team has gathered data on what appears to be a cryvolcanic formation named Ahuna Mons.
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Dwarf planet Ceres hosts cryovolcano

New analysis of data from the Dawn space probe shows Ceres is more geologically active than once believed.
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Young Cryovolcano on Ceres

Analysis of images from NASA's Dawn mission reveals that dwarf planet Ceres hosts an unexpectedly young cryovolcano that formed with the past billion years.
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Scientists have made a puzzling discovery while studying the surface of dwarf planet Ceres: large craters thought to have formed on Ceres billions of years ago are nowhere to be found. WSJ's Monika Auger reports. Photo: SwRI/Simone Marchi
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Ceres Missing Large Craters

Ceres' lack of giant impact basins presents a puzzle to scientists. They expected to observe more large craters on the dwarf planet than have been found by NASA's Dawn mission. Researchers are investigating a variety of processes that might have caused the appearance of the largest basins to be softened or erased over time. For more information about the Dawn mission, visit http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/

Dwarf Planet Ceres' Crater Sizes Make It A Cosmic 'Oddball' | Video

It lived through the 'most violent phase of the solar system’s collision-prone past' according to the Southwest Research Institute, but imagery shows only 16 craters bigger than 62 miles (100 km) wide. Collision models show that it should have 10 to 15 craters bigger than 250 miles (400 km) wide.
Credit: SwRI/NASA Dawn Mission

Dawn Spacecraft Finds Potential Water Ice Accumulation Areas On Ceres

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has been hard at work mapping the surface of Ceres and has found that the dwarf planet could be housing accumulations of water ice.
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has been hard at work mapping the surface of Ceres and has found that the dwarf planet could be housing accumulations of water ice.
The areas believed to have the potential for such deposits are permanently shadowed craters in the northern hemisphere.
Said one of the researchers, “Ceres has just enough mass to hold on to water molecules, and the permanently shadowed regions we identified are extremely cold -- colder than most that exist on the moon or Mercury.”
Noted another team member, “While cold traps may provide surface deposits of water ice as have been seen at the moon and Mercury, Ceres may have been formed with a relatively greater reservoir of water."
Calculations show that annually 1 in every 1,000 drops of water generated on the dwarf planet could end up in one of these cold traps.
At that rate of accumulation, a thin sheet of ice would take approximately 100,000 years to form.
Scientists believe the cold traps on Ceres have had the requisite temperatures for ice accumulation for roughly a billion years.

Dwarf Planet Ceres' Shadowed Craters Could Harbor Water Ice | Video

NASA's Dawn mission has mapped the permanently shadowed craters of Ceres and the conditions are favorable for the accumulation of water ice in the regions. These areas that are believed to have temperatures below minus 240 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 151 degrees Celsius).
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Mysterious Bright Spots On Dwarf Planet Ceres Stranger Than Thought

NASA has announced the discovery of a massive concentration of carbonate minerals in the bright spots on Ceres.
NASA scientists are learning more about the peculiar bright spots on Ceres and have found that they contain “the highest concentration of carbonate minerals ever seen outside Earth.”
The agency announced the discovery and resulting paper in a recent press release.
In it, lead author Maria Cristina De Sanctis is quoted as confirming that, “This is the first time we see this kind of material elsewhere in the solar system in such a large amount.”
The bright spots are located in the dwarf planet’s Occator Crater.
The most common mineral detected in them appears to be sodium carbonate which is “a kind of salt found on Earth in hydrothermal environments.”
The researchers believe it originated from the inside of Ceres, possibly due to “interior hydrothermal activity, which pushed these materials to the surface within Occator.”
This means that “liquid water may have existed beneath the surface of Ceres in recent geological time.”
As such, the “salts could be remnants of an ocean, or localized bodies of water, that reached the surface and then froze millions of years ago.”
The next step is to determine if the carbonates appear in “Ceres' many other bright areas.”

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NASA's Asteroid-Orbiting Probe Might Get One Final Mission
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NASA DAWN PROBE ORBIT AROUND DWARF PLANET 'CERES'

CNN's Jonathan Mann reports NASA's Dawn probe is now the first spacecraft to orbit a dwarf planet Ceres. To License This Clip, Click Here: http://collection.cnn.com/content/clip/370258905_001.do

Dawn made history last year as the first mission to reach a dwarf planet, and the first to orbit two distinct extraterrestrial targets -- both of them in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The mission conducted extensive observations of Vesta during its 14-month orbit there in 2011-2012.
"We're excited to unveil these beautiful new images, especially Occator, which illustrate the complexity of the processes shaping Ceres' surface. Now that we can see Ceres’ enigmatic bright spots, surface minerals and morphology in high resolution, we're busy working to figure out what processes shaped this unique dwarf planet. By comparing Ceres with Vesta, we'll glean new insights about the early solar system," said Carol Raymond, deputy principal investigator for the Dawn mission, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
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Unveiling Ceres

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has revealed marvelous sights on dwarf planet Ceres during its first year in orbit, including the mysterious bright spots in Occator Crater.
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Flight Over Dwarf Planet Ceres

Published on Jan 29, 2016
Take a flight over dwarf planet Ceres in this video made with images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The simulated flyover was made by the mission's camera team at Germany's national aeronautics and space research center (DLR).

A Low-Altitude Fly-Over of Ceres

NASA put its latest low-altitude views of Ceres together into a fly-over view—and it reveals something intriguing about the dwarf planet.
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Flight Over Dwarf Planet Ceres

Take a flight over dwarf planet Ceres in this video made with images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The simulated flyover was made by the mission's camera team at Germany's national aeronautics and space research center (DLR).

Ceres Rotation and Occator Crater

Dwarf planet Ceres is shown in these false-color renderings, which highlight differences in surface materials. Images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft were used to create a movie of Ceres rotating, followed by a flyover view of Occator Crater, home of Ceres’ brightest area.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

Dawn spacecraft takes best ever images of dwarf planet Ceres

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has taken the best images yet of the dwarf planet Ceres, detailing the cratered surface from a distance of 240 miles . Report by Hettie Maylam.

What Are Dwarf Planet Ceres’ Bright Spots? Data Animation

Spectral measurements by NASA's Dawn spacecraft reveals that the 130+ bright spots on Ceres are likely composed of hydrated magnesium sulphate, but researchers state that "other compositions are also possible." The attention-grabbing 'Occator Crater' is composed of salts mixed with other silicate materials. -- Full Story: http://goo.gl/Ogd3Oa
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/mash mix: Space.com

NASA: Unveiling Ceres

Original air date: Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015, 7 p.m. PT (10 p.m. ET, 0200 UTC)
Prior to the Dawn spacecraft's arrival in early 2015, dwarf planet Ceres was the largest unexplored world in the inner solar system. Highlights from the mission's first science orbits will be presented.
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Lecture: Unveiling Dwarf Planet Ceres

Original air date: Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015, 7 p.m. PT (10 p.m. ET, 0200 UTC)
Prior to the Dawn spacecraft's arrival in early 2015, dwarf planet Ceres was the largest unexplored world in the inner solar system. Highlights from the mission's first science orbits will be presented.
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Dr. Carol Raymond, Dawn Deputy Principal Investigator, JPL

Ceres Song for Kids/Dwarf Planet Ceres Song

Learn about our solar systems Dwarf Planet Ceres with this fun educational music video for children and parents. Brought to you by Kids Learning Tube. Don't forget to sing along.
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Lyrics:
I am Ceres
The smallest Dwarf planet
The closest dwarf to the sun
The star that we orbit
Yeah I am Ceres
I’m in the asteroid belt
Between Jupiter and Mars
is where my presence is felt
I was spotted for the first time in 1801
By Giuseppe Piazzi the Sicilian
I was named after the Goddess of Agriculture
The Romans gave me my name in their time and culture
I am the smallest Orbiting planet in our solar system
It takes 4.6 years for me to go around our sun
I am Ceres
The smallest Dwarf planet
The closest dwarf to the sun
The star that we orbit
Yeah I am Ceres
I’m in the asteroid belt
Between Jupiter and Mars
is where my presence is felt
NASA's exploring me with a space probe named Dawn
And found a crater named Occator that had bright spots on
Nobody really knows why those spots are there or what they're from
But with all these scientists I’m sure the answer will come
In 2006 my status changed to a dwarf
Before that, I was a planet and I was an asteroid
I am Ceres
The smallest Dwarf planet
The closest dwarf to the sun
The star that we orbit
Yeah I am Ceres
I’m in the asteroid belt
Between Jupiter and Mars
is where my presence is felt

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The power of Dark Energy may be increasing as the universe ages. Subtle clues are emerging that the accepted model for the nature of dark energy and dark matter may not be all that. We saw the first such clue recently in our recent episode on the Crisis in Cosmology. Today we’re doing a Space Time Journal Club to reveal another clue. We’re looking at a new paper in Nature Astronomy, “Cosmological constraints from the Hubble diagram of quasars at high redshifts” by Risaliti and Lusso. It hints that the cosmological constant may not be so constant after all. In fact it may be increasing. If this is true, then our prediction for the future of our universe looks VERY different, and may involve the entire universe tearing itself to shreds at the subatomic level in the Big Rip.
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NASA ScienceCasts: A Super Start to 2019

2019 is an excellent year to look to the sky and enjoy the spectacular view of Earth’s nearest neighbor, the Moon.
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Do black holes contain dark matter?

Black holes grow by accreting matter under gravity; so surely they should be able to accrete dark matter? So then is there loads of dark matter trapped inside black holes?
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Space Weather News | A Filament Sandwiched by Sunspots 03.20.2019

UPDATE: Part of the filament I talk about did erupt after I posted this video! We could have a part-Earth directed solar storm coming by the end of this week! Check my twitter feed for the latest on arrival time!
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This week we are coming down from a solar storm from some fast solar wind, but that doesn't mean the fun is over! We have two fast-growing sunspots on the Earth-facing Sun and they are sandwiching a filament that is growing more unstable by the day. If this filament erupts within the next day or so, we could have an Earth-directed solar storm! We are keeping a close watch on this to be sure. Also, one of the new sunspots may be showing signs of an influence of solar cycle 25. Just like the previous rogue sunspot we saw a few weeks ago, this new region has a dominant magnetic signature that runs north-south instead of east-west. Its too early to tell what the final polarity of this region will be, but if it continues this way, it will be yet another signal that solar cycle 25 is closer than we think! Learn the details of this filament sandwich, get the scoop on the two new sunspots that may cause its launch, and see what else our Sun has in store for us this week!
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Global 3-hr Kp index: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/planetary-k-index
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HiClip: In the Gullies and Bedrock of Ius Chasma (Mars)

This image was acquired in Ius Chasma, a major section of the giant Valles Marineris trough.
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